Publications

AIMS

Publications

- Report
- Non peer-reviewed
2013
LODE-BD Recommendations 2.0 : Report on how to select appropriate encoding strategies for producing Linked Open Data(LOD) enabled bibliographical data
LODE-BD aims to support the selection of appropriate encoding strategies for producing meaningful Linked Open Data (LOD)-enabled bibliographical data (directly or indirectly). The LODE-BD recommendations are applicable for structured data describing bibliographic resources such as articles, monographs, theses, conference papers, presentation materials, research reports, learning objects, etc. – in print...
- Conference paper
- Peer-reviewed
2013
A reference space for information management standards, tools and methodologies: the AIMS portal
The Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) portal provides to information specialists in the agricultural domain good practices and methodologies on the management and dissemination of agricultural information by using widely accepted standards and methods. AIMS is a resource container where users can find experiences in applying semantic technologies and information...
- Presentation
- Non peer-reviewed
2013
La Web Semántica y su aplicación en servicios de información : El caso de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura
Presentation about "Open Data and the Semantic Web" introducing to the public some of the products that have been developed by AIMS and its partners, like AGRIS, AGROVOC, AgriDrupal, AgriOcean DSpace and the AIMS portal.
- Presentation
- Non peer-reviewed
2013
Use and integration of vocabularies in digital repositories
Free Webinar on the use of controlled vocabularies offered to people from Sokoine Agricultural University (SUA), University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Ardhi University (ARU) and Tanzania Meteorological Institute (TMA) working on the project "Strengthening documentation, communication and dissemination of information related to climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation in...
- Conference paper
- Non peer-reviewed
2013
Migrating bibliographic datasets to the Semantic Web: The AGRIS case. Semantic Web.
In this paper we describe the ongoing move of the AGRIS repository toward a decentralized approach based on Linked Open Data (LOD) (Bizer, et al., 2008). This move has progressively required modifications and enhancements to data, models and workflows. The growing demand for freely accessible data has brought a rise...
- Presentation
- Non peer-reviewed
2013
How to select appropriate encoding strategies for producing LOD-Enabled Bibliographic Data
The webinar presents the LODE-BD Recommendations - Linked Open Data (LOD)-enabled bibliographical data- which aims at providing bibliographic data providers of open repositories with a set of recommendations that will support the selection of appropriate encoding strategies for producing meaningful Linked Open Data (LOD)-enabled bibliographical data (LODE-BD).
- Conference paper
- Peer-reviewed
2013
Towards Linked Agricultural MetaData: Directions of the agINFRA Project
The agINFRA project focuses on the production of interoperable data in agriculture, starting from the vocabularies and KOS used to classify and an-notate them. In this paper we report on our first steps in the direction of con-tributing to a LOD of agricultural data. In particular we look at germplasm...
- Peer-reviewed
2013
Preliminary Work Towards Publishing Vocabularies for Germplasm and Soil Data as Linked Data
The agINFRA project focuses on the production of interoperable data in agriculture, starting from the vocabularies and KOS used to classify and an-notate them. In this paper we report on our first steps in the direction of con-tributing to a LOD of agricultural data. In particular we look at germplasm...
- Presentation
- Non peer-reviewed
2013
AgriOcean Dspace : Versión personalizada de DSpace para redes agrícolas y acuáticas
n 2010 FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE decided to collaborate on customizing DSpace. The main reasons: Both organizations support synergistic document repository communities with similar metadata standards and controlled vocabularies: the AGRIS (FAO) and Odin- OceanDocs (UNESCO-IOC) communities. Both organizations were independently of each other working on a customization of DSpace. In...
- Conference paper
- Peer-reviewed
2012
Thesaurus Maintenance, Alignment and Publication as Linked Data: The AGROVOC Use Case
The AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is now published as linked data. In order to reach this goal AGROVOC was expressed in Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), and its concepts provided with dereferenceable URIs. AGROVOC is now aligned with ten...